Arguably biggest news story of the year with over 11,000,000 documents over 2.6 TB of data leaked detailing how wealthy individuals and heads of state around the world are actively involved in a wide circle of money laundering and tax avoidance. It goes without saying this deserves its own thread.

No one from the US has been implicated in these leaks yet, but it is highly suspected they will be the main focus of a second leak on the way soon.

244) While not FORBIDDEN, my Midnight is to keep in mind that using an army of animated skeletons in order to fill the town square with a rendition of "Spooky Scary Skeletons" is going to be considered odd at best.

The news is that the media's creating another shitstorm and making it out that rich people are untrustworthy despite the fact it's pretty fucking obvious that it was happening anyway. And that's not news, that's olds.

Well I mean as was said by someone else the reason this is news is because that can happen. But in the grand scheme of things nothing will change I think.

No disrespect to Iceland but their PM was incredibly guilty, did a poor job of concealing it and no-one cares about Iceland. Multiple international investigations will find some wrong doing, slap some wrists and everyone will continue about their lives regardless of any potential new regulation. Various people who were really good at avoiding the international legal system's clutches will find themselves attacked by the international legal system. I suspect we'll see a fair few more resignations from various governments and a lot more inquiring into the current crop of rich weeds but a new crop will rise.

Global capitalism will continue to shit on basically everyone who isn't a white man from the Western world.